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Just Another Gen X Nomad's avatar

This piece hit home. Gen Xers are expected to come up with a plan for the future (in under 15 minutes) without ever having been led with care. We are a "throw away generation" raised amid deindustrialization, deregulated schools, and collapsing civic systems. Add in that in the cultural imagination of our Boomer parents, GenX was often portrayed not as inheritors, but as threats. -the demon children in horror films, the bad seeds, underachievers, everything about our generation was "bad and contemptible". And now we’re expected to fix the ship, quietly, while pretending we didn’t watch it sink from the hull up.

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derek's avatar

Well done ol boy well done!

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